House-fortress in Moscow by N. Tokarev, Leonovich, Panaca

In a small area (0.15 ha) with large trees is a house and outbuildings. House Area 400 sqm, 3 floors with no basement, outbuildings – 150 sq.m. On 1 floor – shared rooms: dining room, living room, on the second – the bedroom – the third room and studio owner with a terrace. This is the only room in the house, having a distant view from the windows.

Close to the site are other homes are very different in size and architecture, so the task of the architect has been fenced off from surrounding buildings. This “home-castle”, so the facade sparingly developed, narrow windows, the add-on 3 floor resembles a submarine periscope. Visual contact with the outside world is supported through the ends are not visible from the road. House pushed back into the depths of the site, outlines the terraces are subject to the location of the trees. House-fortress resists the social environment surrounding the context of the little village.

Inside the house white and empty, is the home gallery, the owner collects modern paintings and antique ceramics. Geometric massive plane walls are finished in dolomite, referring to the Soviet architecture of the 70’s. Window and add a contrast trimmed with white stone almost black wood. But here the architecture of Soviet official buildings became home, private, becomes a human scale. “Cold” polished sections alternate with rough stone and “warm.”